Listening to Transparency: Denys Vinzant: D’Ore et d’Espace | 2000-2012 | Sound Installation
I saw this modular installation D’Ore et d’Espace(meaning of “in this moment”) in the Shanghai Minsheng Art museum this summer. It consists in more than two hundred scores written on the glass, and each exhibition is an occasion of a new creation, which proposes some “imaginative architectures” depending on the space that it occupies.
It is constituted by an ensemble of glass plates while the most of them are sonic. Crystalline tones, “pearl notes”, sound streaming, the installation of Vinzant presents an ensemble of scores written on the glass or stained-glass plates with golden ink. By the intermediary of transducers fixed on the plates, the sound propagates on the surface of the vibrating glass, playing like that the role of a membrane of loudspeakers.
Handwritten, with a play of transparency, where audio and visual communicate together, these scores represent an integral digest of unheard music.